Clinkle

Not since Color has a startup been as widely laughed at as the troubled Stanford payments startup Clinkle. So it’s little surprise that the company has changed the name of its app to “Treats”, as well as its direction. After seeing the company’s site had rebranded, I spoke with 23-year old CEO Lucas Duplan to find out how Treats will work.
The private beta product… Read More

After 17 months of jokes about vaporware college payments startup Clinkle, its iOS and Android apps finally launched today at a few colleges. Clinkle lets you pay friends, get a pre-paid Visa, and earn gifts like Baskin-Robbins ice cream for buying stuff with your Clinkle card. The trick is that Clinkle gamifies payments. You can only see Treats sent to you by friends if you pay with… Read More

It’s never a dull moment when it comes to Clinkle, the mobile payments startup which hopes to one day replace your wallet. The young company’s roller coaster ride continues with the news today that former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy has stepped down from his day-to-day role with the company as COO after less than six months. Read More

Clinkle is the hottest app around to have done mostly nothing. The stealth payments service, which has raised $30 million from big-name investors, has yet to publicly launch. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be hacked.
Today, a guest user posted a list of 33 usernames, user IDs, profile photos, and phone numbers to PasteBin. Based on the data provided, it seems as though these users… Read More

Mobile payments startup Clinkle continues to add senior management types to its executive ranks. Mike Liberatore, who has 15 years of experience in financial positions at PayPal, Adobe, and others, will join the company as its new CFO. Read More

Stealthy payments startup Clinkle which raised $25 million in outside funding before its product ever launched, has terminated around 25% of its staff (16 people), according to a report posted this morning by Fortune. The news of the layoffs comes amid speculation that there’s internal trouble, and even potentially issues with Clinkle leadership, which has raised doubts about the… Read More

Super-stealthy payments startup Clinkle is expanding its executive ranks, and it’s doing so by bringing on a few folks who had previously worked with new COO Barry McCarthy at Netflix. Today it’s announcing that it’s hired former Walmart and Netflix exec Andy Rendich as its VP of operations, as well as Allison Hopkins, formerly of Palo Alto Networks and Netflix, as its VP… Read More

Super-secretive startup Clinkle hasn’t had a lot to say about what it’s up to, but it’s announcing a big hire today that it no doubt hopes will propel it forward in the mobile payments market. As the company prepares for public launch next year, Clinkle has brought on former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy as its COO. Read More

Clinkle, a much-hyped mobile payments startup which raised $25 million in funding ahead of having a publicly available product, has been notoriously secretive about its user interface and the details of how it all works. TechCrunch has been able to grab some screenshots in the past that demonstrate how the app functions, and spoke with beta testers and former employees to get a sense of… Read More

Clinkle, the much-hyped mobile payments startup that recently announced a $25 million round, announced today that it is opening its wait lists to college students across America.
The company, which has been in stealth mode since 2011, says the students that build the largest wait lists, proportional to their school’s student body size, “will be among the first to experience Clinkle… Read More

Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors.
The company was the subject of much hype and speculation in April when a dozen students left Stanford to start it.
Beta testers, a former employee, and even Clinkle’s website have given us a look at how the app will function and what it will look like. Read More